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Rohan and Seema have to quickly build a cricket team. If they add all their friends, can they get 11?
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Categories: Engineering & Technology Family & Friends Mathematics Science & Nature
Collection: Editor’s Picks
Readers: Kids
Suggested age: Not assessed
A story from the perspective of shoes. (This story was originally created at a storybook development workshop with 22 educators, in February 2019, in partnership with the British Council and Department of Basic Education, South Africa).
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A child is wondering how to bring happiness and light amidst the coronavirus outbreak.
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'Watch people move in the magic photographs! A picture two miles long! Only three annas!' This is how a magician named Dadasaheb Phalke invited people in the street to come and watch his first film. Other actors in this amazing story about the genius of Dadasaheb Phalke, the Father of Indian Cinema, include a cook who played a woman and the first film editor in Indian cinema who happened to be a woman and his wife! If you are a fan of films, you are sure to be fascinated by this script of his life and the making of the first ever Indian film. It has all the ingredients of blockbuster!
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Lines are around us everywhere. In our homes, and in nature. On land and in the skies and in the water too.
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Categories: Adventure Children & Young Adult Reading Crime, Thrillers & Mystery Human Interest Personal Development Plays/Films/Dramas School & Education Science & Nature
Collection: Editor’s Picks
Readers: Kids
Suggested age: Not assessed
This little lion wants you to know that lions are strong, fast, and most of all, brave. But what is that storm cloud on the horizon? A story about who we are and who we think we should be.
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Categories: Fiction Nature/Gardening/Animals
Collection: Editor’s Picks
Readers: Kids
Suggested age: Not assessed
A simple book on what is little and what is big.
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Categories: Children & Young Adult Reading Family & Friends
Collection: Editor’s Picks
Readers: Kids
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This is a story about a little ant with a big plan, and how his love for reading saved the day.
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Categories: Adventure Children & Young Adult Reading Crime, Thrillers & Mystery Family & Friends Fiction Humor Nature/Gardening/Animals Personal Development
Collection: Editor’s Picks
Readers: Kids
Suggested age: Not assessed
In a large forest, in a faraway land, there were many lakes, ponds and streams. The animals had a lot of water for use. What happened when they did not use water fairly?
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Categories: Family & Friends Fiction Horror Nature/Gardening/Animals Personal Development
Collection: Editor’s Picks
Readers: Kids
Suggested age: Not assessed
Little Goat wanders off to look for the sweet grass and doesn’t realise how far she is from Mother Goat.
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Categories: Nature/Gardening/Animals
Collection: Editor’s Picks
Readers: Kids
Suggested age: Not assessed
The reader follows the wise ant as she talks about carnivorous plants, how they catch prey and why they do what they do.
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Categories: Fiction Poetry Science & Nature
Collection: Editor’s Picks
Readers: Kids
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Little Joe is worried. Everybody in the house is rushed, restless and seems very, very worried. Everybody, except Joe's Nanna. Will the worry lines on all the faces in the story curve into happy smiles? Come, lets find out.
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Categories: Children & Young Adult Reading Family & Friends Humor Personal Development School & Education
Collection: Editor’s Picks
Readers: Kids
Suggested age: Not assessed
